[HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

[Larry Hall]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  3 14:45, Larry Hall wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> The FS type field is used now to recognize the cygdrive prefix.  So,
>>> my current local /etc/fstab file looks like this:
>>>   $ cat /etc/fstab
>>>   # C:\cygwin / ntfs binary 0 0
>>>   C:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin ntfs binary 0 0
>>>   C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib ntfs binary 0 0
>>>   C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ntfs binary 0 
>>> 0
>>>   C:\cygwin\home\corinna\textmode-dir /home/corinna/textmode-dir ntfs text 
>>> 0 0
>>>   c:\cygwin\home\corinna\managed /home/corinna/managed ntfs binary,managed 
>>> 0 0
>>>   \\fs01\archiv /home/archiv smbfs binary 0 0
>>>   none /mnt cygdrive binary 0 0
>>> Note especially the first entry for the root dir, which is commented out,
>>> and the last entry for the cygdrive prefix.
>> Looks good to me.  Before this is all done though, I expect we'll need to
>> include an explanation before the first line explaining why it's commented.
>> Something like:
>>
>> # Commented line below represents the default '/' mount point.  To override
>> # this, uncomment the line and make the appropriate changes.
> 
> Well, it's *my* /etc/fstab file.  You can just omit the root dir entry
> on your machine, or override it with something else.  I don't think
> anybody on the world really needs or even expects an explaining comment
> on my local machine, except, maybe, a hacker :)

I guess I misunderstood.  I thought this was an example of a generated
fstab file.  So is there going to be a generated file with generated
entries too once this gets out into the "real world"?

-- 
Larry